All nine patients underwent pulmonary function tests to define forced vital capacity (FVC) and diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) before treatment and every six months.
"Mission defines force structure," said the United States ambassador to South Korea, Stephen W. Bosworth, who said that American ground troops could be cut back in the future.
The Syrian opposition wants foreign governments to provide military support for the Free Syrian Army FSAa), a loosely defined force fighting the regime, and the establishment of no-fly zones backed by the West.
This viscoelasticity results in materials displaying increased deformation with time under the imposition of a defined force or stress, a phenomenon referred to as time-dependent deformation or 'creep'.
In uniaxial tests, a specimen, usually a rectangular or dumbbell-shaped strip of cuticle or skin, is subjected to a defined force applied along the axis of extension and the force and extension are monitored.
Both the choreographer and the composer were leading figures in their field – and defining forces of 20th-century art.
Just what such accommodation entails is not clearly defined, forcing the state and private firms to offer generous deals to win the tribes' assent.
The 1930 Forced Labour Convention defines forced labour as "all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily".
The ILO defines forced labour as involuntary work as a result of force, fraud or deception when a penalty or the threat of a penalty is used to coerce.
When defined forces are exerted on each transducer separately, the responses are very linear and the absolute error is less than 2%.
This brings to light the difficulties in defining forced marriage and child marriage.
